user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v4.17.4

kvm: rename KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED to KVM_HINTS_REALTIME

2018-05-17T17:12:13Z

KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED seems to be somewhat confusing: Guest doesn't really care whether it's the only task running on a host CPU as long as it's not preempted. And there are more reasons for Guest to be preempted than host CPU sharing, for example, with memory overcommit it can get preempted on a memory access, post copy migration can cause preemption, etc. Let's call it KVM_HINTS_REALTIME which seems to better match what guests expect. Also, the flag most be set on all vCPUs - current guests assume this. Note so in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection API

2018-04-20T15:32:23Z

Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1 or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM. But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2, let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular version of the API. This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to any supported version if the guest requires it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16 Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier

KVM: trivial documentation cleanups

2018-03-28T20:47:06Z

Add missing entries to the index and ensure the entries are in alphabetical order. Also amd-memory-encryption.rst is an .rst not a .txt. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable HLT intercepts

2018-03-16T21:03:52Z

If host CPUs are dedicated to a VM, we can avoid VM exits on HLT. This patch adds the per-VM capability to disable them. Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Jan H. Schönherr Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable MWAIT intercepts

2018-03-16T21:03:51Z

Allowing a guest to execute MWAIT without interception enables a guest to put a (physical) CPU into a power saving state, where it takes longer to return from than what may be desired by the host. Don't give a guest that power over a host by default. (Especially, since nothing prevents a guest from using MWAIT even when it is not advertised via CPUID.) Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Jan H. Schönherr Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-4.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD

2018-03-16T21:03:18Z

KVM: s390: fixes and features - more kvm stat counters - virtio gpu plumbing. The 3 non-KVM/s390 patches have Acks from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Heiko Carstens and Greg Kroah-Hartman but all belong together to make virtio-gpu work as a tty. So I carried them in the KVM/s390 tree. - document some KVM_CAPs - cpu-model only facilities - cleanups

KVM: document KVM_CAP_S390_[BPB|PSW|GMAP|COW]

2018-03-14T19:21:06Z

commit 35b3fde6203b ("KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature") has no documentation for KVM_CAP_S390_BPB. While adding this let's also add other missing capabilities like KVM_CAP_S390_PSW, KVM_CAP_S390_GMAP and KVM_CAP_S390_COW. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

KVM: Introduce paravirtualization hints and KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED

2018-03-06T17:40:44Z

This patch introduces kvm_para_has_hint() to query for hints about the configuration of the guests. The first hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED, is set if the guest has dedicated physical CPUs for each vCPU (i.e. pinning and no over-commitment). This allows optimizing spinlocks and tells the guest to avoid PV TLB flush. Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Eduardo Habkost Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

KVM: x86: KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS

2018-03-06T17:40:43Z

This commit implements an enhanced x86 version of S390 KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS functionality. KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS "allow[s] userspace to access certain guest registers without having to call SET/GET_*REGS”. This reduces ioctl overhead which is particularly important when userspace is making synchronous guest state modifications (e.g. when emulating and/or intercepting instructions). Originally implemented upstream for the S390, the x86 differences follow: - userspace can select the register sets to be synchronized with kvm_run using bit-flags in the kvm_valid_registers and kvm_dirty_registers fields. - vcpu_events is available in addition to the regs and sregs register sets. Signed-off-by: Ken Hofsass Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand [Removed wrapper around check for reserved kvm_valid_regs. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

KVM: x86: add SYNC_REGS_SIZE_BYTES #define.

2018-03-06T17:40:43Z

Replace hardcoded padding size value for struct kvm_sync_regs with #define SYNC_REGS_SIZE_BYTES. Also update the value specified in api.txt from outdated hardcoded value to SYNC_REGS_SIZE_BYTES. Signed-off-by: Ken Hofsass Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář